4.25 stars

I’ve read other places that Anywhere You Go is, “The Holiday, but make it gay,” and I have to say that is a pretty accurate assessment. As someone who loves the movie, I found this modern, queer iteration utterly delightful. I also applaud author Bridget Morrissey for centering a nonbinary character, as we don’t get enough of these kinds of characters or love stories. I want more novels like these, please.

Overall, the prose, the banter, and the character arcs for both Tatum and Eleanor were an absolute delight to read. June, Carson, and Dawn were also wonderful characters. I feel like the universe that Morrissey built is one I wouldn’t mind inhabiting. It’s a joyful homage to a classic and a fresh queer romance that proves that love is universal, no matter who you are or who you love. And that feels super important, now more than ever.

Did not finish at 35% — I was intrigued by The Holiday-adjacent plot but could not get invested in the story. Wasn’t interested in either couple in this dual romance.

In this queer, the Holiday-inspired story, we follow two strangers who go on a journey of self-discovery in different ways with unlikely, yet humbling companions.

I was kindly sent an eARC from @berkleyromance @berkleypub with their Influencer Hub for Underrepresented Voices.

I really enjoyed this book. It was sweet, funny, and had the smallest amount of spice but it hit so good.

Tatum and June have the slowest burn and their journey is so beautiful.

Eleanor and Carson were off the charts. I yearned for so much more with them and it was delivered perfectly.

There is a lot more I could elaborate on, but I don’t want to give up the entire thing and not allow anyone who wants to read it, enjoy themselves.

“You feel like the rest of me.”

Thank you so much to Berkley Romance for the free copy; all thoughts are my own.

Anywhere You Go is told in alternating POV as we follow small-town waitress Tatum Ward and recently fired NYC Broadway press agent Eleanor Chapman. Tatum escapes to NYC with her long time crush June to avoid family drama, swapping homes with Eleanor who needs a change of scenery after being terminated for exposing her trash bag of an ex-hook up.

I found everything in this story so charming including small town Trove Hills, interactions with Dawn (Eleanor’s neighbor, an elderly reclusive Hollywood actress) and Carson. It’s hard for me to pick a favorite character (but no it’s not because it was always going to be Carson) with June coming in a strong 2nd. But truly, I understood and felt for all the characters; their baggage and struggles all made sense. I don’t know how she did it, but in 325 pages, Morrissey had 4 love interests with depth. Color me impressed.

While the bulk of the story happens over the course of a week, I think it really worked. The characters found themselves in situations that poked at their tender spots; Eleanor is an orphan and being around the Ward family reunion stings. Conversely, risk averse Tatum had to confront her fears head on seeing June take risks in her business and personally. This led to lots of vulnerable moments between characters that strengthened their emotional connection.

Anywhere You Go is the perfect summer romance for fans of The Holiday; a Queer, non-festive spin on the classic with a voice all of its own.

TLDR: I am CHARMED. So cute, ate it up!

What to expect
•A charming Queer rom com insured by The Holiday
•2 love stories for the price of 1! (in this economy)
•Family drama, nuanced characters
•Cameos from previous couples (Love Scene and A Thousand Miles)

Eleanor Chapman & Carson Ward
•Press Agent X Artist
•Grumpy/sunshine
•One night stand

Tatum Ward & June Lightbell
•Small-town waitress X Entrepreneur perfumer
•Friends to lovers
•Mutual long-term pining

This was such a cute and heartwarming read! Both stories were incredibly sweet, but I would absolutely die for Carson and Eleanor—that storyline was hands-down my favorite. Honestly, I could have devoured an entire book just following Carson being their magical self and finding love.

The writing style was on the simpler side, which wasn’t a bad thing, but it did make me picture the characters as younger than they actually were—I had to remind myself a few times that they were older. That might just be a me thing, though, and I don’t fault the author for it, especially since the story itself was interesting and well-developed. I also really appreciated how nearly every character, even the side ones, showed growth and worked through some genuinely tough issues.

Overall, a great read—I had such a fun time with it!

*Thank you to Berkley and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review and to PRH Audio for the gifted ALC*

The Holiday but queer? Please and thank you. The representation was great and it was cool to get 2 different love stories in the same book. And ohhhhhh the DRAMA. A surprise baby from an affair, running off to New York with your crush, and finding out your situationship just got engaged? WOOHOO! I do feel like both storylines had so much more potential than what we got though. I wanted to see Tatum write for Saving Hannity Banks or Eleanor get her revenge on the publicity firm. Ultimately just fell a little short for me. But the epilogue was cute and the family reunion was super fun!

4 Sapphic “The Holiday” Stars!

This is my first book by Ms. Morrissey. When I read the blurb I thought it would be a good read since it’s loosely based on one of my favorite movies, The Holiday, but from a Queer point of view.

Eleanor and Tatum switch places and these two couldn’t have been more different. Eleanor a NYC Publicist, has lost her job and goes to Tatum’s small town. Tatum goes to New York with her friend June who she’s had a crush on for quite some time and this seems like the perfect opportunity to explore those feelings. But as can be expected nothing goes quite as planned.

This book was well written and I loved the characters and their experiences both in life and love. There’s dealing with grief, unrequited love, finding family that you didn’t know you needed and some laugh out loud moments. Once I sat down to read I finished the book in one-sitting. I highly recommend reading this book.

The was a cozy and sweet read - I gave it three stars because I enjoyed reading it, but at the end of the day it wasn’t anything groundbreaking. The book itself is a quick read, and definitely draws inspiration from The Holiday - two people desperate to get out of town swap houses and find love.

The writing was straight forward and easy to read, but I didn’t really feel a connection between characters the way I want to in a romance.

I loved Carson as a character the most, and always found myself wishing we were getting more of their perspective. I struggled with both of our main characters, Eleanor and Tatum. They were both very self-aware of what was holding them back, but both were annoyingly resigned to their faults.

At the end of the day, I just felt like the story didn’t go deep enough into either character’s journey, which I think would have helped a lot.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Y’all I cried so hard reading this book (positive review), but also found myself grinning uncontrollably. It was so layered and beautiful and I’m absolutely obsessed with these queer The Holiday vibes.

Eleanor is an orphan and a workaholic who loses her job after calling out her situationship for cheating on his fiancée. Tatum is a waitress who lives in small town Illinois, is secretly crushing on one of her diners, and is a total people pleaser. When both their lives kind of fall apart, they switch houses without a thought - Eleanor comes to live in Tatum’s cottage (on her parents’ property) while Tatum and her “friend” June move into E’s swanky New York condo. While they’re kind of running away from their lives, both women fall in love and realize what’s been missing from their lives.

There is so much growth of both main characters and their love interests, it felt the most real a romance has felt in a long time. There is a double third act breakup, but in a way that yeah makes total sense AND all four people make grand gestures to each other which I love. This also had some of the best found family vibes I’ve read in a while, everyone wanted to embrace Tatum and Eleanor into their worlds. This deals with the ways our families can absolutely mess us up, but the ways in which everyone grows offered so much hope. If you loved The Holiday, if you wanna cry AND kick your feet giggling, then this new release from Morrissey is perfection

This was a super cozy queer romance of Hallmark proportions. A house swap and two romances, say less. It was sweet and I enjoyed both stories! Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the ARC!

Tatum Ward is a waitress in her small town of Trove Hills, Illinois. She has a side gig of writing difficult texts for others who want to break up or quit their job or something equally difficult. She doesn’t charge people for that. She just enjoys writing, and at this point in her life, that’s all the writing she can accomplish. She lives in a cottage by her parents’ house, close enough to hear if something were to go wrong. And she is still dealing with the fact that she and her siblings have a secret brother they never knew about.

Tatum’s father had admitted to an affair many years before, but he had just recently found out that it had resulted in a son, and now he wants the entire family to get together. Tatum is not ready for that. So when her favorite customer at the diner, June, gets dumped by a text that Tatum was asked to write, Tatum is devastated and apologized profusely. June is a fragrance designer who is about to travel to New York City for an important meeting about her perfumes, but she isn’t sure she can She was counting on her girlfriend for moral support. So Tatum pipes up and offers to go with her.

Eleanor Chapman is a press agent for Broadway shows, and when she finds out that her occasional hookup just proposed to his girlfriend after 4 years, she sent a company-wide email congratulating him, since he’s a producer that they represent. But then Eleanor follows that up with a message to his new fiancé telling her about their relationship. Suddenly, Eleanor finds herself without a job and wanting to get out of town to clear her head. She asks on social media if anyone can watch her cats at her apartment in New York for a week, and June responds. Tatum offers up her cottage to Eleanor, and she and June can use her apartment in New York City and take care of the cats.

When Eleanor comes to Trove Hills, she makes herself comfortable in Eleanor’s cottage. She is having a quiet evening with a bottle of wine and a book when she is interrupted by someone pounding on the door and asking Tatum to open up. When Eleanor doesn’t open the door, the person outside climbs in a window. And that’s how Eleanor met Carson, Tatum’s non-binary older sibling, covered in glitter. Carson apologizes for barging in, not realizing that Tatum had left town. But the attraction between Eleanor and Carson develops quickly.

During the next week, the attraction between Carson and Eleanor heats up, and Tatum and June’s time in New York is productive. Tatum makes friends with one of Eleanor’s neighbors and finds herself missing her family and feeling guilty for skipping out on the reunion the way she had. And when she gets word that her sister broke her leg, Tatum heads back home on the next flight, putting her burgeoning relationship with June on hold. Back in Illinois, Eleanor decides it’s also time to head home, leaving Carson without saying anything.

As everyone settles back into their lives, they all have to choose between going back to the unhappiness that caused them to make sudden life changes in the first place, or to run after the love they had found when they took chances.

Anywhere You Go is a sweet rom com about upending your life and finding everything you didn’t realize you were missing. I really enjoyed this house-swap story. I thought the characters were well-rounded and interesting, and I loved the two settings. The addition of Dawn in New York added lots of fun, and the story of a secret brother of Tatum and Carson added a lot of texture to the family. I had a great time with Anywhere You Go. It was an amazing trip.

Egalleys for Anywhere You Go were provided by Berkley through NetGalley, with many thanks, but the opinions are mine.

5 stars ✨

Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing and Bridget Morrissey for this ARC! I absolutely adored this book so much!!

Truthfully, and I promise to rectify this situation immediately, I have never seen The Holiday. All that to say that having the knowledge that this was a queer version of The Holiday meant very little to me, I was just happy to be here. This story follows Tatum and Eleanor as they swap homes to escape the troubles they are currently experiencing in their lives, and the love they both separately find on their individual journeys!

I was charmed by Tatum and June from the very first chapter, so much so that the mention of June having a girlfriend at the beginning of this story made me think my reading comprehension had left my brain momentarily. Sure enough, I picked up on the correct vibe, and I really loved their big city adventure.

The true keeper of my hearts were Eleanor and Carson, the same way they were instantly attracted to each other was the way I instantly fell in love with them and decided I could read 1,000 pages of them just hanging out. Their interactions with one another were both so sweet and genuine while also being so incredibly funny I was actually laughing out loud!

I loved both of these couples very much but it actually fails in comparison to how much I loved Dawn… former hollywood movie star and current neighbor to Eleanor who finds herself interwoven into both of these love stories by chance. With Dawn, and with everyone, came the real heart of this story. Sure, it was a romance with two happy for now endings, but it was also so much more than that! We see Tatum learn to stand up for herself with her family and take steps to do things for herself instead of others. We see June learn to appreciate being alone and enjoying the company she is with for who they are and not just to not be alone. We see Carson learn that they don’t need to be anything other than themselves and that they are enough just the way they are. We see Eleanor learn how to let people in and trust they won’t leave her. And most beautifully, we see Dawn learn to open herself back up to the world and with the help of this crew, find the courage to get back out there. I will be thinking about this book for a long while. I love it so dearly!

I love this book so much - as other readers have pointed out it's like The Holiday but queer. We have two wonderful main characters: Tatum and Eleanor. They decide to swap places! Tatum goes from her small town to a NYC apartment with her long-time crush June and Eleanor walks right into an unexpected family reunion with Tatum's family and immediately catches the eye of her sibling Carson. Both are so perfectly matched that I'm still not over it! The premise is so interesting and well executed. The timeline of the book may be kind of fast, it's definitely believable. All of this comes from their incredible writing style - it's so romantic while also feeling so real. It can be a hard balance sometimes and I never felt that here.

This book made me laugh, kick my feet, and even tear up as Eleanor and Tatum found their footing in their own lives. There's also the most incredible side character who is an old movie star - this review wouldn't be complete without mentioning her!

I definitely recommend this book!

This was a quickly paced queer romance that feels like a loving homage to The Holiday, which was quite entertaining to read. Great characters- and I think characters from all of Bridget's previous books made their way into the story (some in some pretty major ways!) which made this feel like a nice way to bring them all back into the same universe.

If you ever wanted to read a book like the movie The Holiday but with queer representation, Anywhere You Go is what you're looking for. Main characters Tatum and Eleanor jump at the opportunity to get away from their current life chaos and swap houses for a week.

Highlights:
-Dual Point of views
- lots of queer representation
- authentic characters
- fun banter

Lowlight(s): (which may be highlight for some)
-insta-lust trope

A little spicy, a little sweet. Two romances, one book. I did enjoy reading Anywhere You Go, I loved the growth of the main characters. And Dawn, we need a book that solely focuses on her and her backstory, please!

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an opportunity to read and review an advanced digital copy.

You never know what you've got until it's gone......or so I'm told. These two women see only the negatives in their lives and can't figure out how to change what they don't like without hurting feelings, theirs and everyone else's too. Then shades of the movie The Holiday, they swap lives. The plot may not be original but Bridget Morrissey's treatment and the characters she shares with us are definitely original. A character driven story where the characters are easy to cheer for and an ending that is sigh worthy. I'd recommend to anyone who needs a change of pace and deserves the good feelings this book generates.

Two queer romances for the price of one? Sign me up!

Tatum and Eleanor live totally different lives. Tatum is a small town waitress living in a cottage behind her parents who is pinning over a frequent costumer, June. Eleanor is a Broadway press agent living in New York City with her cats. When Eleanor is let go from her job suddenly, she finds herself lost as to what to do next. Her job was her entire life. When Eleanor reaches out to her friend June looking for a cat sitter while she goes on a self searching trip, Tatum and June come up with the bright idea of Eleanor and Tatum switching places. Tatum escapes her family reunion and Eleanor gets a change in sensory. What neither anticipates in the soul searching they will be doing during their time away from home to find out what they really need when it comes to love and family.

I really enjoyed reading Tatum’s point of view. Tatum has such a warm personality and a way with words. I loved seeing her growth throughout the book as she begins to recognize her worth and sorting out her suppressed feelings concerning the affair her father had years ago that resulted in a surprise sibling. The banter between Tatum and the other characters is amazing! I love Tatum’s family! Staying in NYC, Tatum gets to experience the small town girl in a big city which I connected with that excitement being from a small town myself.

My only complaint is I wish we could see Tatum’s sister Carson’s thoughts. I really wanted to get to know them more. Their past as the oldest, paving the way for their younger siblings by coming out as non binary and a lesbian. Eleanor and Carson’s relationship is very fast paced compared to Tatum and June’s slow burn.

If you love found family, sapphic romance, and small town/big city settings, you will love these charming characters (including supporting characters)! Also, the cover art is stunning!


Thank you NetGalley and Bridget Marrisey for gifting me this e-ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

"I want you to know I love you out loud."

I laughed. I cried. I giggled and kicked my feet. It literally gave me all the feels.

When I first picked it up I wasn't quite sure how much I was going to love this. It sounded super cute and like I would have a good time but love? Well. I definitely loved it. The dual relationships was a big hit for me. I couldn't decide who's pov I wanted to read more because I enjoyed them both so much. I think if I had to pick a favorite, though, it would be Eleanor because I'm in love with Carson.

Eleanor is used to being alone and relying on herself for everything because why bother? People only leave or disappoint you in the end. Enter my love Carson. They are just what Eleanor leaves. They want her right from the beginning. They want to care for her, love her, and be there for her the way she needs and deserves 🥹.

Tatum and June were so sweet. Tatum is terrified of hurting people so she doesn't let anyone get close to her. She pines for June for a year while June just waits for Tatum to be ready for them to be together. When Tatum finally accepts that love can happen for her it's so precious.

This was definitely a romcom but there were so many feels. The characters all felt like real people, it was queer as heck, and I just loved it so so much.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the arc!!

A cute sapphic retelling of "The Holiday"? Sign me up! And you get two love stories for the price of one? Even better ❤️

This is a fun and easy read that just gives you all the feels. I did love one couple more than the other so for that I couldn't give it a higher rating.

3.5 ⭐️ rating

I actually really enjoyed this book. As far as contemporary romance goes it’s just the perfect rom com vibe. I loved the queer representation!! It gets boring reading heteronormative relationships back to back so this was a wonderful novel to break that up.

I love a dual POV so getting Tatum and Eleanor’s stories at the same time was wonderful. I was born and raised in a small Midwest town and the author captured the essence of it perfectly! It made me giggle how much Tatum’s dad acts like a very stereotypical Midwest dad when meeting someone new. Overall the characters really did feel very relatable. Especially Tatum. I very much see myself as her as the people pleaser/mediator of the family.

I would have loved maybe a little more detail in the spiced scenes but it did not take away to the book. The scenes are much more of an open door but fade to black scenario.

Overall I liked this book! Perfect for a quick read to add to your book log of the year!